Rose of Thorne by Mia Michelle

Mia fell in love with the literary world at a very young age and began putting her active imagination to pen and paper at the age of six. Over the years, she has filled up numerous shelves with her notebooks and journals of her favorite stories. Twelve years ago, Mia began drafting The Thorne Series and through encouragement of a close friend, decided to finally take the leap of faith to bring he…r dream to life. She openly admits to having a hopeless infatuation with her Kindle and suffers from the one-click book addiction (No intervention required).
Mia is currently a stay at home mom who has mastered the fine art of making a PB&J sandwich in between laundry and shuttling kids to ballet and swimming. In her spare time (“What spare time?” She laughs), she enjoys photography, traveling, and having a girls night out with her pals. She enjoys the simple things in life, such as sleeping more than 3 hours per night and 10 minute showers without being interrupted by children yelling “mommy” from the other side of the bathroom door. Mia Michelle resides in Tennessee with her soul mate and husband of 18 years and their 2 beautiful young children. She is currently working on her Masters in Counseling and drafting her new series.

Synopsis

When a drunk driver tragically orphans Skylar Rose at the age of sixteen, she leaves her dreams behind and takes on the daunting task of helping her elderly grandmother raise her young sister. While other girls her age were living a typical carefree life, she was picking up double shifts at a local café and struggling to pay the bills.
Always putting her sister’s needs and school first, Skylar has never had time to date or develop relationships. Now a senior in college, she has her sights set on an amazing internship opportunity. The last thing she needed was for a sexy distraction like Sebastian Thorne to walk into her life.
Sebastian Thorne had been an entitled and reckless nineteen year old when he got behind the wheel of his new sports car that night. When his night of indulgence goes tragically wrong, Sebastian hesitantly turns to the one person, he knows can make everything go away…the one person he hates …his father.
Now twenty-six, Sebastian is the young enigmatic and powerful CEO of his late father’s design company, Thorne Enterprises. With both millions in the bank and a new woman on his arm almost every night, the world never knew the dark secret he carried inside. Still plagued with nightmares from the night of that horrific accident and having to leave the beautiful girl behind, Sebastian vows to find the one that haunts his dreams. Sometimes the choice of revisiting our past opens the door to a future that we never thought possible.
Haunted by their past, these two want nothing more than to have their life given back to them. But what do you do when the person who gave you back your life, was the very one that took it from you in the first place?
* BOOK 2 THORNELESS will follow VERY VERY SOON!! Contains sexual content and abusive situations. Recommended for readers 18+ years

So the beautiful ladies from Feisty Book Blog asked us to join them on the blog for this amazing book….. here is my review!!!! Lots of love K xxx

So this book…………..WHAT CAN I SAY…..this book had me from the first sentence –

“People always have that one day, that one specific moment that they wish they could change or just erase”.

What a sentence to start a book.

I am finding it hard to write this review without spoilers, it’s that good that I just want to talk about it all, so here we go….

So Skylar is having the perfect sweet sixteenth. Mom, dad and little sister all spending time together, that day was perfect but then it turned to hell and life would never be the same. That day was 7 years ago!!!

Sebastian ( O my beautiful sweet broken boy) just has it all, the car, the girls, and the money!!! But does he really have it all??? Is he really that happy??

Then one mistake changes his life forever!!! That mistake was 7 years ago!!!!

Sebastian Throne (what a man, may I add again) he has the life, the women love him and his staff are scared of him. He, literally, rules the world and anyone and everyone knows him as the almighty business man. He lives for his company.

“when the world looks at me, they see Sebastian throne, CEO of Throne Enterprises, a young and wildly wealthy bachelor, who takes the world by storm, and never backs down when he wants something. Never. But, when I look in the mirror, I don’t see that man. No I see a coward, a man who has grown up in a life that he does not deserve.”

Yep, you’ll love him just as much as I do!!!

Skylar is working hour after hour to provide for her sister, after giving up her dreams so that her sister can have hers.

Guilt, remorse and even trying to get forgiveness, takes Sebastian to the same place heartbroken Skylar is… there is just one word for this FATE. They may not speak and one may not know the other is there, but the one who see’s wants the other……Get my drift???

As soon as they meet and talk the connection jumps right at you and you can’t help but scream and shout for them to make it, it may not be right but my god if you have love like this shouldn’t you hold on with both hands? No matter what!!!!!!!

Yeah I know what you’re all thinking………………….HELL YEAH!

But what if that man isn’t the man you thought he was, what if that man is the man who ripped your heart out and never gave it back and then he hung your heart out in front of you again and then stamped on it, could you still love him? What if there is another man trying to sweep you off your feet and you know he is the perfect catch? What would you do??? Can you love another when the man you truly love is right in front of you???

This book had me gripped from the start and I was on the edge of my seat the whole way through and I just didn’t know where it could go, Mia had me laughing, crying, screaming, and she had me up all night reading it. This book became one of my top ten books to read. If a book can give these emotions it can’t be anything other than a 5 star read.

If you said to me, I can only buy one book this year…. THIS WOULD BE THE BOOK I WOULD SAY!!!!

Lots of confusion, lots of missed words and lots of heartache. But my goodness what a love story!!!! A love story that shouldn’t happen but you’ll want it to happen. TEAM SEBASTIAN – what team will you be on??

So I am very honoured to have read book two…. EPIC READ out in 3 weeks!

BOOK ONE IS 5 STARS

BOOK TWO IS 10 STARS!!!!!! My goodness what an amazing lady is Mia.

Francesca’s review-

Rose of Thorne, well what can I say this book totally gripped me just from reading the prologue, I could tell this book would draw me in and leave me gasping for breath when it was done with me.

Meet the handsome Sebastian Thorne a twenty six year old who at the age of nineteen made a terrible mistake and ends up killing the parents of Skylar Rose leaving her orphaned at the sweet age of sixteen.

Sebastian goes on to become the CEO of Thorne Enterprises but he never forgets or forgives himself for that fateful night.

“I have struggled to make peace with what I did that night…”

Skylar goes on to live a tough life working whilst studying at college and supporting her little sister. Her life is heart breaking and all the heartache and pain she goes through had me feeling sick inside. You know that horrible feeling where you just want to make everything better for them, well that was me.

Then they meet, not through coincidence first time round, but when Skylar gets an internship at Thorne Enterprises eventually they really start to fall for one another. Skylar finally feels like she can have a life again, that Sebastian is giving her life again after it was taken from her when her parents died.

“For the first time in a long time, you make me forget the hurt I feel. I didn’t think that was possible. It’s like I can finally breathe again.”

For Sebastian though although he loves her he can’t help but feel that he is undeserving of Skylar because he is the reason she has suffered all these years, after all he took away her parents.

“But, I’m not worthy of that look because, even as deeply as I already feel for her, I don’t deserve her.”

Their relationship is like one step forward; one hundred steps back because Sebastian thinks he shouldn’t be with her. It was quite exhausting, but not in a negative way. You can understand Sebastian’s reservations however you know how Skylar feels and I just wanted to say ‘have sex already’.
I did forgive Sebastian straight away for what he had done that night. I just hoped that Skylar would never find out Sebastian’s dark secret and that they can just be together, because the bottom line is they make each other happy and that’s what life should be about.

Skylar continues to have a rough time, and Sebastian helps her through these times, like a knight in shining armor and a protector.

Lets face it though, nothing lasts forever does it?

So do they get together? Does Skylar find out Sebastian’s secret? Well….

You NEED (sorry about the capitals) to read this book, it will leave you an emotional wreck, hot and horny one minute then blushing like a virgin the next, and finally gasping for air when you get to the end.

I can’t wait for book two, in fact I needed it yesterday…so Mia Michelle give me Thorneless!!! Team Sebastian all the way!!

Here’s a little quote of how Sebastian makes Skylar feel and you can see why they belong together ~

“…because I honestly don’t think my heart can beat without him. There is no doubt that I love him with everything in me. He fills that deep gaping hole inside of my soul and I never conceived that to be possible.” ~ Skylar Rose ❤